OBAA TS 6 70RWMD20R00000009 QandAs Pitch Papers.pdf
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This document contains a federal contract opportunity solicitation issued by the Department of Homeland Security for research related to alternative signatures for biological weapons of mass destruction. The solicitation seeks proposals for a cooperative agreement award to research methods for detecting biological weapons through means other than traditional signatures. Eligible offerors may include universities, nonprofit research institutions, and private firms but foreign government-owned laboratories are ineligible as prime recipients though may participate as team members. Students supported through this research must be U.S., territorial, or possession citizens or permanent residents. The solicitation includes standard proposal and reporting requirements and is governed by the terms of the overarching Research and Development Open Broad Agency Announcement also referenced.
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Questions for CWMD OBAA Topic Solicitation No. 6: 70RWMD20R00000009 Pitch Papers
Question # Reference Contractor’s Question Answer
1 General Is a privately operated lab owned by a foreign government eligible to apply for funding under this topic?
Per the Topic Solicitation, the award type is anticipated to be in the form of Cooperative Agreements.
Privately operated labs owned by foreign governments are not eligible to apply for Cooperative Agreements. Privately operated labs owned by foreign governments can still participate in the research as team members on a team lead by a prime Offeror who is eligible for a Cooperative Agreements.
Furthermore, per the Topic Solicitation under Section 18, all students supported (funded) under this project are classified as trainees and must be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S., its territories or its possessions. Students who are not citizens or permanent residents of the U.S., its territories, or its possessions may be involved in the project, but not funded by this project.
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